Believe it or not, Kohler, the 800-pound gorilla of the US toilet market, still makes many models in the USA, namely the pressure-flush, commercial, Power Lite, and many Class Five/Six and Ingenium models. I toured the mother Kohler factory in Kohler, Wisconsin two months ago to see how toilets were made (it was a very unique experience), and they're still churning away toilets by the hundreds every day. Most of the Wisconsin production was mainly pressure-flush, high-end two-piece comfort height, and commercial flushometer models, but Kohler also still has US toilet factories in Brownwood, Texas and Spartanburg, South Carolina, specializing in the high-volume sellers sold at the big-box stores and to supply houses (Wellworth/Highline Class Five, Memoirs, Cimarron, and flushometer toilets, among others).

This isn't to say that Kohler doesn't import a lot of their toilets: Other Kohler models (some one-piece and dual-flush, along with many Class Five/Six bowls/tanks) are made in Monterrey and Reynosa, Mexico, while the rest of the non-NAFTA-region-made Kohler toilets come from Thailand (the former Karat Sanitaryware factories) or China (Foshan, Shanghai, or Nanjing). You can tell by the box where a Kohler product was made. If it just says "Kohler Co., Kohler, Wisconsin, 53044" with no manufacturing location, it was made in the USA. If it also says "Crafted in Mexico/Thailand/China", it was made elsewhere.

Mansfield also still makes a significant portion of its toilets in the USA, at factories in Ohio and Texas. At several stores, I've seen Mansfield Altos, Summit 3s, and Quantums display "Made in the U.S.A." on the box. Still, I wouldn't touch a Mansfield with a 39 1/2-foot plunger.

So no, Toto is not alone in selling toilets made in the USA by American workers. Whether I would actually buy some of those toilets is a different story, but it's good for people who are interested in keeping jobs in America (like me) to know.

Are you just finding out about plumbing rebranding. Water heater manufacturers have been doing it for decades. You don't really think there were that many different heater manufacturers out there, did you?